One-dimensional hierarchical nanostructures of TiO(2) nanosheets on SnO(2) nanotubes for high efficiency solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells.

Hierarchical nanostructures of TiO2 nanosheets on SnO2 nanotubes (SNT@TNS) are uniformly dispersed in an organized mesoporous (OM) TiO2 film with large pores, high porosity, and good interconnectivity. The solid-state dye sensitized solar cells (ssDSSCs) fabricated with 10 wt% SNT@TNS dispersed in a OM-TiO2 film show an energy conversion efficiency of 7.7% at 100 mW cm(-2) , which is one of the highest values for N719-based ssDSSCs and much larger than that of a randomly oriented TiO2 nanoparticles-based cell (4.0%).